Detroit Hockey Fans Have Spoken: We Want the Gladiators
2004年7月1日 - 7:35AM
PRニュース・ワイアー (英語)
Detroit Hockey Fans Have Spoken: We Want the Gladiators WHA Team to
Be Known as Detroit Gladiators PONTIAC, Mich., June 30 /PRNewswire/
-- Detroit's newest hockey team, the Detroit franchise of the World
Hockey Association, under the ownership of Senticore, Inc.
(OTC:SNIO) (BULLETIN BOARD: SNIO) , will be called the Detroit
Gladiators. The team announced its name following a week of online
voting by fans. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040630/DEW024LOGO ) Fans were
urged to vote online at http://www.senticore.com/ to cast a vote
from among five finalists. The Gladiators was the fan favorite,
leading the way with 32 percent of the vote. Other finalists were
Detroit Cougars (28%), Detroit Demons (19%), Detroit Speed (13%)
and Detroit Dynamos (8%). The Detroit Gladiators will take the ice
this October in a newly-installed ice arena at the Pontiac
Silverdome, where it will play its 38 home games in this inaugural
season of the World Hockey Association. In conjunction with its
name, the Detroit Gladiators also unveiled the team logo, which can
be viewed at http://www.senticore.com/ . The logo, featuring a
gladiator poised aggressively with hockey stick and shield in hand,
will be featured prominently on the team's black and silver
uniforms. The online team name voting poll also included a random
drawing for a pair of season tickets. The winner of that first set
of season tickets is Corey Haynes of Jackson, Mich. "We'd like to
thank all the hockey fans of Detroit for helping us name the team,"
said Jay Patel, CEO, Senticore. "When the Gladiators storm the
arena this fall, we'll have a team worthy of its name." Earlier
this month, Moe Mantha was named head coach of the Gladiators.
"With Moe at the helm and the draft coming up, the team is taking
shape very quickly," said Patel. Season tickets are expected to go
on sale following the July 10 WHA free agent and entry level draft.
For more information, visit http://www.senticore.com/ or the league
web site at http://www.worldhockeyassociation.net/ .
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040630/DEW024LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Detroit Gladiators CONTACT:
Kelly Smallegan-Maas, +1-616-235-9581, , or Lee Ann Welsh,
+1-248-471-2809, , both for Detroit Gladiators Web site:
http://www.senticore.com/ http://www.worldhockeyassociation.net/
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